Friday, 6 September 2013

5 in 5 - Melanie September

This post is written by my friend Melanie. She lives in Australia and doesn't have a blog. I keep encouraging her and hopefully she will one day. Meanwhile she wanted to join the 5 in 5 challenge so I am posting her photos on her behalf. I love that Melanie wants to take part! Over to Melanie:

SPRING IN
THE FRONT GARDEN AFTER RAIN – SEPTEMBER

Top left
the aloe Vera plant. This
plant has beautiful flowers late winter early spring. The juice in its
leaves is excellent for rubbing on stings and burns having a healing
quality. We are never short of a supply with many plants dotted around
our front garden.

Top
right a marigold.
I put in a few marigold transplants from the back garden last month after
getting fed up with seeing weeds on this patch of ground which eventually is to
become a pathway to our decking.

Bottom
left bird of paradise plant. This flower is past its best but I still thought it
worthy of a photo.

Middle a
ground cover plant whose name escapes me. I planted this recently in the hope that
it cover a bare patch of garden.

Bottom right the
first flowers on our new nectarine tree. We had a beautiful nectarine tree in the back
year which died last year so have now planted a new one and given it a spot in
the front garden.I am really appreciative that Melanie took the time to take photos and write this post. Especially as her daughter has just had a serious car accident while in Nambia and is currently in hospital waiting to be flown back to UK. Luckily she seems to have had a lucky escape, even though she may need an operation on her spine,and Melanie is flying back to UK to be with her daughter when she is transferred.So a special big thank you to Melaniefor taking part this month, andspecial thoughts to her and her family at this difficult time.The one positive outcome is that I may get to see her again much sooner than I expected!!!